The announcement of the Steering Group members took place during the first meeting of the #ClimateAction Community.

1. Climate Community
meetup
29 March 2022 - 3 to 4.30 pm CET
Nápoly (361) Hegedüs László 1949 Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár CC BY

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3. ❏ Opening, welcome and intro
❏ The Europeana Climate Action Manifesto
❏ The Europeana Foundation Green Team
❏ Intro to the Steering Group
❏ The nominated candidates
Break (5 min)
❏ The nominated candidates
❏ Establishing the Steering Group
❏ Open floor
❏ Closing and end
Today’s programme

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7. Climate Action Manifesto
The Europeana Climate Action Manifesto

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10. The Green Team
Started May 2022
Cross team with 5 active members from 4 teams
Shadi
Ardalan
Marijke
Everts
Maša
Škrinjar
Maike Dulk Patrick
Ehlert

11. Green Team Goals
● Investigate and help reduce the Foundation’s carbon footprint
● Central point of contact for sustainability questions
● Raise awareness of pros and cons of digital cultural heritage
● Share knowledge and promote best practices
● Cooperate with organisations with similar goals

12. Green Team Achievements
● Several talks and presentations
● Helped with questions
● Digital Clean-up
● Carbon Footprint report 2020
Ongoing
● Publish footprint results
● Investigate possible reduction measures
● Investigate effectiveness of carbon offsetting

13. Green Team Collaboration
● Investigate best practices
● Research specific sustainability questions
● Write publications
● Organise events / presentations

14. Meet the candidates

15. Nelson Brito

24. Nelson’s shared links
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nelson-Brito-2
Montarroio Case Study
http://www.iea-annex56.org/index.aspx?MenuID=4
http://www.iea-annex56.org/Groups/GroupItemID6/12.PT.pdf
Common Efficacy
https://www.eehb2022.org/?page_id=88
EEHB 2022 Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings
https://www.eehb2022.org/?page_id=88
Bringing Digitalization Home: How Can Technology Address Housing Challenges? | Joint Center for Housing
Studies
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/bringing-digitalization-home-how-can-technology-address-housing-ch
allenges
These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/these-portuguese-libraries-are-infested-batsand-they-it-way-180969
276/

25. Back in 5 minutes
Break
Serie fotografica Venezia, 1960-1950 Monti, Paolo 1960 Fondazione Biblioteca Europea
di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC) CC BY-SA

26. Susan Hazan

27. Nissi Beach Agia Napa, Famagusta, Cyprus | Cyprus Tourism Organisation | Digital Heritage Research Lab -
Cyprus University of Technology | CC BY NC
Meetup - Meet the candidates for the Steering Group
of Europeana Climate Action
Dr. Susan Hazan
Europeana Foundation Advisory Board Member
Former Chair of Europeana Network Association
Digital Heritage, Israel
European Commission Evaluator

28. New European Bauhaus has called for inspiring examples of how our cultural institutions and
heritage contribute to sustainable and inclusive practices, services, and spaces in our
communities
Call to Action - New European Bauhaus

30. The New European Bauhaus brings a cultural and creative dimension to the
European Green Deal, aiming to demonstrate how sustainable innovation
offers tangible, positive experiences in our daily life.
Climate change and environmental degradation are an
existential threat to Europe and the world.
To overcome these challenges, the European Green Deal will
transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient and
competitive economy, ensuring:
• no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050
• economic growth decoupled from resource use
• no person and no place left behind

31. https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/green-through-time-four-historical-figures-wh
o-raised-awareness-of-the-environment
Hippocrate’s book Air, Waters, and Places is said to be the earliest
known surviving European work on human ecology.
In a period when people thought sickness was caused by gods,
Greek physician Hippocrates (460 – c. 370 BC) became one of the
most remarkable figures of the history of medicine.
He detailed that people’s health was affected by not only what
they consumed, but also the environment in which they lived.

32. The Salt House by Brigita Bula, Latvia

33. Local building materials for a
harmonious co-existence with nature

34. The Salt House by Brigita Bula, Latvia
Sustainable
This 240m2, one-storey building is set in a
seaside meadow as a simple, narrow,
elongated volume that draws a thin
sea-wave-like line in the surrounding
undulating landscape, leaving as small an
imprint in the existing biotope as
possible.
Pāvilosta has a temperate climate & strong
wind, so the building was constructed with
thick, monolithic, lime-plastered blocks - a
material sourced locally.
The cross-section of the one-story
structure was inspired by traditional
fishermen's houses prevalent in the area.
The heating system uses only local
renewable sources - a combination of a
heat pump & a wood heating system.

36. Auto plant workers in Michigan wear masks to
protect themselves from the Spanish flu, 1918.
©The Flint Journal

37. Marcel Breuer helped to create designs
that would fight future outbreaks. After a
significant outbreak of tuberculosis in
1882, and after the Spanish flu pandemic
of 1918, there was need for new
Minimalist furnishing that could be easily
cleaned and used.
With these goals in mind, Breuer helped
create Minimalist pieces using hygienic
wood and tubular steel.
Before this period, overstuffed furniture
was popular, but it was found to hold
bacteria. To combat that problem, these
new Minimalist styles used aimed to use
less fabrics.
Wassily Chair, B3, design By Marcel Breuer at
Bauhaus School

38. Just as the 1918 flu pandemic
was an inescapable part of the
zeitgeist of the time, the
coronavirus pandemic has
already become the zeitgeist
of our time

39. PANDEMIC

40. UKRAINE

41. CLIMATE
ACTION

42. https://pro.europeana.eu/post/the-europeana-climate-action-manifesto#
The Europeana
Climate Action Manifesto

44. Priority #3: Build capacity
The Europeana Initiative will support institutions in their digital transformation.
It will showcase the importance and added value of digitisation, adoption of
standards, best practice and common solutions.

45. CLIMATE
ACTION

47. Planning
Climate impact should inform all stages and elements of our work.
We will:
Embed eco-thinking. We will ‘think climate’ from high-level
strategy setting, to yearly roadmaps and individual planning
cycles.
Set standards for managing resources. We will ensure our supply
chains are as ecologically responsible as possible.
Benchmark and measure our progress. We will carry out
sustainability audits and impact assessments so that we can
reduce our carbon footprint in targeted areas.

48. Collaborating
Collective action is essential. We will:
Learn together. We will progress further and faster if we work
together, collaborating with experts, organisations and networks
who are similarly committed and who may be further along this
journey than we are.
Harness our networks. The expertise and experience of the
professionals and organisations in our networks are integral to
our ability to address the complexities of climate change in our
sector. Together, we will work towards common solutions,
standards and frameworks for climate-responsible practices for
digital culture.
Share what we learn. Sharing good practices and the challenges
we encounter can empower further change at professional and
organisational level. We want our learnings to be helpful for
others to use or adapt for their own settings. So, Europeana’s
climate actions will be transparent and made available through,
for example, easy-to-access guides or working documents.

49. Operating
Small changes contribute to a big impact. We will:
Make systematic changes. The development of a climate
action strategy will be an important tool to help us to
exercise material and digital minimalism in all our operations.
Meet sustainably. When we convene either physically or digitally,
we will minimise the damage we do, from considering the impacts
of travel and catering, to the green credentials of the
conferencing software we use.
Clean up our digital practices. Every individual can make a
difference so we will educate ourselves to clean up our personal
digital practices.

50. Advocating
Change doesn’t end with us. We will:
Lead by example. We will raise awareness of climate issues
related to digital cultural heritage and highlight
environmentally-friendly practices on both individual and
organisation levels.
Provide support. We will help our members and peers, partner
and contributing organisations, to develop their own capacity for
making sustainable change, through sharing tools and case
studies and providing opportunities for learning and discussion.

51. Nissi Beach Agia Napa, Famagusta, Cyprus | Cyprus Tourism Organisation | Digital Heritage Research Lab -
Cyprus University of Technology | CC BY NC
Commitment
Only by leading by example through this kind of
determined and supportive action can we seek out
and confirm ecologically responsible ways, provide
support for our community and in doing so ensure
the future of our children.

52. Thanks for listening….
Susan Hazan

53. Establishing the Steering Group

54. Open floor

55. References and shared links
Community page on Pro
https://pro.europeana.eu/page/climate-action-community
Climate Action Manifesto on Pro
https://pro.europeana.eu/post/the-europeana-climate-action-manifesto
Climate Action Needs Culture: a film produced by a group of Scottish culture and cultural heritage institutions
advocating for the role of culture in responding to climate change
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/climate-action-needs-culture
Report from UNESCO on 'Documentary Heritage at Risk: Policy Gaps in Digital Preservation'
https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documentary_heritage_at_risk_policy_gaps_in_digital_preservation_en.pdf
Blog series by Randi with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on AI and audiovisual archives
https://beeldengeluid.nl/en/knowledge/experts/randi-cecchine

56. Thank you!
painting (watercolour and gouache): ["Sunset, Scotland"], Nottingham City Museums and Galleries CC BY-NC-SA